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Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. [1] The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in.
2 Advanced techniques by declarer. 3 Techniques by defenders. Toggle the table of contents. List of play techniques (bridge) 1 language.
It is especially common on Japanese railways, where it is referred to as shisa kanko (指差喚呼), shisa kakunin kanko (指差確認喚呼) or yubisashi koshō (指差呼称); in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese railways, where it is called 指差呼唤; 指差確認 (zhǐchā hūhuàn); and in Indonesian railways, where it is known as tunjuk ...
Duplicate bridge score sheet for ACBL tournament. Scoring in duplicate bridge is done in two stages: Each deal is scored as in rubber bridge but with some variations in methodology. The result of each deal by each partnership is compared to all other results for the same deal by all other partnerships.
A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
The mouth closed shisa is thus saying "nn" or "mm" as the end of the same alphabet. There is little evidence supporting this theory, but the unique similarities are striking. It is possible that the Japanese and other parts of Asia have deeper roots to the Western world than archeological records indicate.
25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know is a book on contract bridge co-written by Canadian teacher and author Barbara Seagram and British player and author Marc Smith.It was published by Master Point Press in 1999.
N E S ♠ K Q ♥ K 4 ♦ — ♣ — ♠ 4 ♥ Q 2 ♦ — ♣ A On the play of the ♣ A by South, East is squeezed but can escape by throwing a small heart. Although the ♥ Q is now set up, South must next play either the ♥ Q, ♥ 2 or ♠ 4 to be won in dummy and has no entry back to cash it; he must now lose a spade to East. ♠ A J Example 2 North to lead ♥ — ♦ — ♣ 2 N E S ...